Monthly Archives: November 2008

Pallet project

Tiny Free House says: “I’m embarking on a little experiment. I’m going to build a tiny house that’s cross between Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden Pond and a Tumbleweed-like Tiny House on wheels.” Pallet construction can be nearly FREE!
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Super-fridge

Energy-efficient appliances: where to start? It’s a bit overwhelming at first. Began kind of randomly with fridge-freezer gear—preserving food by keeping it cold seems both essential and energy-expensive. The first promising company I run into is Vestfrost, an eco-friendly refrigeration specialist from Denmark. According to dealer literature, “these sleek and popular energy efficient refrigerators are [...]
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MoCo tiny homes

Tons and tons of impressively slick, green, expensive, clever takes on tiny living spaces… I’m spending hours going through the Architecture archive at MoCo Loco: The Modern Contemporary Design Blog, where high design and compact prefab homes are a central feature. In the pic, the K3 Modernist 9′x13′ prefab module from kitHAUS, installed at Big [...]
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Living in a small space

Quite suddenly, over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been thinking seriously about living in a rather small space. Tiny farming leads to tiny living? Maybe… In any case, no worries. I’ve occupied relatively small spaces in big cities: typical apartment living. At the tightest, I’ve lived with a partner in a fairly tiny studio [...]
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